Anchor



Nov. 1, 1955 H. H. SIMSHAUSER 2,722,190

ANCHOR Filed June 18, 1954 INVENTOR HERBERT 5 mas/#1 U-SER ATTORNEYS United States Patent ANCHOR Herbert H. Simshauser, Ravenna, Ohio Application June 18, 1954, Serial No. 437,642

2 Claims. (Cl. 114-407) The present invention relates to an anchor for boats and particularly relates to an anchor that can be dismantled into a small, compact unit when not in use and which can be easily and quickly assembled to provide a highly eflicient anchor.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a low-cost anchor that can be readily carried or stored but which will, upon assembly, provide an anchor of superior holding quality.

Other objects and features of novelty of the invention will be made apparent by the following description and drawings which, it will be understood, are only illustrative of the invention and impose no limitation thereon not imposed by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference numerals refer to like parts:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my new and improved anchor;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the body portion of the anchor;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a side view of one of the rods or flukes of the anchor;

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a transverse view, partly in section, of one of the rods in operative position; and

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Referring more particularly to Fig. 1, the novel anchor of the present invention is illustrated therein as including a main body part 2, caps 4, 6 mounted respectively on either end of the body part 2, and rods 8 mounted on one end of the body part, these rods acting as the ground engaging part of the anchor. Each end of body part 2 is threaded, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive the end caps 4, 6, the cap 4 being provided with suitable means, such as eye bolt 10, to engage a rope or chain afiixed to the boat. The body part 2 is illustrated as being tubular in shape but it should be understood that it can be of any desired cross-section or length and it should also be understood that the ground engaging rods or flukes 8 may also be of any desired cross-section or length and may or may not be provided with pointed or bent bends to facilitate the rods in engaging the ground.

Novel means are provided for aifixing the rods 8 to the body part 2 which will now be described. Body part 2 is provided with two longitudinally aligned, spaced rows of holes adjacent one end thereof, the holes of each row being spaced 120 apart around the circumference of the body part 2 and being slightly larger than the diameter of the rods 8. Each rod 8 is provided adjacent one end thereof with a diagonally extending milled slot 12, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5. To assemble the rods to the body 2 of the anchor, it is only necessary to slide arod 2,722,190 Patented Nov. 1, 1955 into one of the holes in the bottom row adjacent the end of the body part and out through a diagonally positioned hole in the other row. The rod is extended through the holes until the slot 12 in the rod engages the edge of the hole in the body part, to thereby lock the rod in position. This procedure is continued until all three rods are properly positioned. After the rods are positioned the cap 6 is screwed onto the end of body part 2 until the inner end thereof engages the ends of the rods. The cap is then further tightened to bear against the rods to force them into position so that the slots firmly engage the walls of the hole in the body part. The manner in which the rods are held in position is clearly disclosed in Fig. 7 of the drawing. It may appear that the three rods will interfere with one another during assembly of the anchor but this condition is prevented by proper placement of the holes around the circumference of the body part and the relationship between the size of the holes and the size of the rods.

To disassemble the anchor, it is only necessary to remove the cap 6 from body part 2 and then extract the rods from the body part through the holes, the anchor then being broken down into its constituent parts for easy storing.

While one form which the invention may take has been described and illustrated, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other embodiments, as well as modifications thereof, may be made without departing in any way from the spirit or scope of the invention, for the limits of which reference must be had to the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. An anchor comprisng a hollow body member provided at one end with means for engaging an anchor rope and provided adjacent its other end with a pair of spaced rows of vertically aligned holes, the holes of each row being spaced degrees apart around the circumference of said body member, ground engaging members extending through diagonally related holes of said rows and through opposed walls of said body member, means adjacent one end of each ground engaging member for engaging the wall of said body member adjacent one of said holes, and a single means on the end of said body member adjacent said ground engaging members abutting the ends of said ground engaging members to lock said members in place.

2. An anchor comprising a hollow body member provided at one end with means for engaging an anchor rope and provided adjacent its other end with a pair of spaced rows of vertically aligned holes, the holes of each row being spaced 120 degrees apart around the circumference of said body member, ground engaging members extending through diagonally related holes of said rows and through opposed walls of said body member, a slot formed in each of said ground engaging members adja cent one end thereof, a cap adapted to be afiixed to the end of said body member adjacent said ground engaging members, said cap simultaneously engaging the ends of all of said ground engaging members to thereby force the wall of said body members into the slot formed in said ground engaging members to thereby lock said members in position.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,583,795 Pasturzac May 11, 1926 2,037,232 Hendriks Apr. 14, 1936 2,542,040 MacLellan Feb. 20, 1951 

